Moscow claims that spy accused Russian is released

The Russian minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, the release demanded of a Russian that in the United States is locked up as a result of illegal espionage activities.

The accusations against the woman are fabricated, said Lavrov on Saturday during a telephone conversation with his American colleague Mike Pompeo. Therefore, the Russian woman is immediately the pre-trial detention are released.

The American justice accuses the 29-year-old Maria Butina sure that they of 2015 until at least February 2017 in the U.S. has been working for Moscow. The Russian woman was the country with a student visa arrived and would have tried organizations to infiltrate that had an impact on the American policy. According to the American federal police FBI was her student visa is just a cover for her espionage activities to hide.

The conversation between the two buitenlandministers found according to Moscow at the initiative of the USA. In addition to that case there were also the bilateral relations between the two countries, the war in Syria and the developments on the Korean peninsula are discussed.